Description
watermelon cake This is a great summer dessert that you don't have to spend too much time and effort making. The entire cooking process takes a maximum of 20 minutes. In addition, there is no need to turn on the oven and languish in the kitchen on an already hot day, because the recipe does not involve the use heat treatment. Therefore, such a watermelon cake will be a real find on a hot summer day, because it is also perfectly refreshing!
You can prepare a watermelon cake in advance. Night in the refrigerator he is not afraid! It will not only not deteriorate, but it will not “float”. All decor will remain in place. It is only necessary to blot the watermelon with a clean towel or napkins before applying the whipped cream.
If your birthday or any other celebration falls during the harvest of watermelons, then do not miss the opportunity to prepare such original dessert. Your guests will definitely be surprised.
So, let's start looking at the step by step photo a recipe describing how to make a watermelon cake.
* After the recipe photo, you can also find a video recipe for this original dessert.
Ingredients
-
Watermelon
(1 PC.) -
(2 cans) -
(1/2 tsp) -
(1 tablespoon) -
(1 glass) -
(for decoration)
Cooking steps
Cream for our cake we will whip out coconut milk. Therefore, we place the jars with this product in advance in the refrigerator (for about 6 hours, you can overnight). During this time, the milk and fat in it will separate. Therefore, carefully drain the coconut milk, and send the remaining oil to a separate container.
TO coconut oil add some honey and vanilla extract. Then we begin to beat it with a mixer: first at medium speed, and then at high speed. The cream should be airy.
Roast the almonds. To do this, heat the pan well and pour chopped nuts into it. Fry until lightly browned. Pour the almonds from the pan into a dry bowl.
Now it's time for the watermelon. It should be washed thoroughly in running water.
Cut off both tops of the watermelon, as in the photo below.
With a knife, carefully cut off the peel from the part of the watermelon that we will use to make the cake.
We managed to make two such “cakes” from one watermelon.
Watermelon cakes must be blotted with a clean towel or napkins (this is necessary so that the cream does not “slip off” in the future). And now we install a smaller workpiece on a large one and coat them with previously prepared whipped cream.
Sprinkle the watermelon cake with toasted almonds and decorate with any fruit of your choice.
Cake can be served.
Bon Appetit!
Video
Canape with watermelon and feta
Calculated for 10 servings
Cut a small watermelon into 3 cm cubes (you should get about 40 pieces), remove the seeds. Cut 450 g of feta cheese into 0.7 cm slices, then divide the slices into 3 cm squares. Fold the watermelon-feta canape, garnish with green basil leaves and secure with toothpicks. Transfer the canape to a dish, pour 3 tbsp. l. olive oil and sprinkle with freshly ground pepper. Tips on how to choose a watermelon.
Watermelon cake with cream
Calculated for 10 servings
From one large watermelon, cut off the tops (so that it can stand) and the rind to make a cylinder. Remove as many bones as possible. Whip 2 cups of heavy cream using 2 sachets (8g each) of cream thickener. Brush watermelon flesh with whipped cream, garnish with fresh seasonal berries and mint leaves. Place the watermelon cream cake in the refrigerator before serving.
Tip: To decorate a watermelon cake, whipped cream can be replaced with icing, prepared from ready mix for decorating cakes.
Tacos with chicken and watermelon
Calculated for 8 servings
In a bowl, mix 2 cups diced watermelon (remove the pits) with 1 finely chopped jalapeno pepper, 1/2 chopped red onion, 1/4 cup each lime juice and chopped cilantro, pepper, salt and mix. In 8 tortillas, arrange grilled chicken fillet slices (about 450 g will be needed), add spicy watermelon jalapeno salad, sprinkle with ½ cup of crumbled feta or goat cheese.
watermelon ice
Calculated for 4-6 servings
Pre-freeze 4 cups of diced watermelon (remove the pits). Place the frozen watermelon cubes in a large blender suitable for crushing ice, add 5 cups of ice cubes, 1 cup of raspberry sorbet (raspberry juice, mixed with a fork several times during the freezing process), 1 tbsp. lemon juice and ½ tbsp. fine sugar. Grind until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Divide the watermelon dessert into cups and place in the freezer before serving. Watermelon ice is ready!
Watermelon Salad - Recipe
Calculated for 4 servings
In a large bowl, mix 3 tbsp. diced watermelon (pitted) 3 tbsp. sliced peaches with 1 bag of arugula and ½ tbsp. green basil leaves. For dressing, lightly beat with a whisk 2 tbsp. l. olive oil and red wine vinegar with ¼ tsp. salt. Drizzle dressing over salad, toss gently, and sprinkle with ¼ tbsp. roasted chopped hazelnuts.
Watermelon lovers try heartily to enjoy this delicious and useful berry in season. And the rest of the time it remains only to dream of summer, indulging in pleasant memories of your favorite sweets and the sun. But the onset of cold weather is not a reason to give up your favorite delicacies, especially on a holiday. "Watermelon" - a cake that will not leave anyone indifferent. Almost any pastry can be decorated in this way - from a multi-tiered honey cake to a simple biscuit.
Unusual dessert
No wonder they say that they are greeted by clothes. "Watermelon" - a cake that attracts primarily with its cheerful appearance. Expressive colors are usually used for its decor: red, green and snow-white. A scattering of chocolate brown seeds sets the final accent. Prepare this holiday treat and you will see how appetizing it looks. For a piece of bright treats, a queue will certainly line up.
cake recipe
The cake should resemble the original in appearance - this is the main thing. But the treat will be even more spectacular if you make it look like a watermelon in a section. The easiest way to achieve this effect is with the help of red dye added to the dough. For this delicacy, the Red Velvet recipe is excellent, which produces lush cakes of a beautiful red color.
We will need:
- 4 eggs;
- 1.5 st. l. cocoa;
- 370 g of kefir;
- 450 g flour;
- 400 ml vegetable oil(refined);
- 400 g sugar;
- 1/4 tsp salt (fine);
- 1.3 tsp baking soda;
- 2.5 tsp baking powder for the dough;
- 2-3 tsp food coloring of red color.
Beat eggs with sugar until thick, dissolve soda in kefir. We combine the butter with the sour-milk base and add the dye. If the color does not seem bright enough to you, add dye to make the shade as similar to watermelon as possible. The cake will be even prettier.
It's time for the bulk ingredients. Sift flour, add sugar, salt, cocoa, baking powder. Gradually introduce the mixture into the egg mass, beat thoroughly. At the end, add tinted kefir. The dough is ready. If you plan to bake it in a regular round pan, line the bottom with parchment paper and lightly oil the edges. The indicated amount of products will allow you to cook 2 round cakes with a diameter of 22-23 cm. In a preheated oven, each of them will cook for about an hour.
edible bones
The cake in the form of a watermelon, the photo of which you see below, is decorated with "bones". Do they really look like real ones? You can use roasted seeds without husks, pieces of nuts. Just sprinkle finished cake on top, but if you want, add them to the dough. You can use regular bar chocolate, broken into small pieces.
Cake shaping
There are many ways to make a watermelon cake. Most popular forms:
- hemisphere;
- semicircular cake;
- round form.
If you have a half-ball shape, you can bake the dough in it. It will take about an hour (at 180 o), and readiness can be checked with a traditional bamboo skewer by piercing the product with it. Cut the finished high cake into several layers, spread with cream.
You can combine cakes prepared in the usual round shape and in the form of a truncated ball. The cake will turn out tall and beautiful.
You can also make a classic round cake. Your task of decorating it in the form of a watermelon will be reduced only to decorating with red, green and white cream.
And if you like everything unusual, cut the cakes baked in a round shape and form the product in the form of a watermelon slice.
Green cream for "crust"
Use any creams that hold their shape well. Perfect for the recipe above butter cream. To prepare it, beat 300 ml of high-fat cream. Beat separately 400 g cream cheese and 150 g of powdered sugar. Gradually add cream to the curd mass, stirring with a spoon. Set aside some of the cream, because we also need white. Tint the main part with green dye. For the indicated amount of ingredients, you will need about 2 tbsp. l. gel dye.
You can apply the cream on the cake with a pastry spatula, bag or syringe.
Jewelry from mastic
This recipe gained huge popularity a few years ago. Its wide distribution is not surprising, because thanks to simple recipe everyone could feel like a virtuoso confectionery art. If you want to make a watermelon cake from fondant, you will need a pack of marshmallows and some powdered sugar.
Not everyone loves. Some experts advise not to eat them at all, but to use them only for decorative purposes. If you suspect that mastic elements will still be used, add a little condensed milk to the mass during cooking - it will be softer and tastier.
Transfer the marshmallows to a bowl (about 400 g), put in the microwave for 2-3 minutes. You can also heat marshmallows in a water bath. When the mass becomes soft, add a handful of powdered sugar. Pour another handful on the table and use it like flour, kneading the marshmallow dough. Use powder or for toning. Shape it into cake decorations.
Easy peasy! Candy Cake
If you are not confident in your abilities as an aesthete-pastry chef, or you just really like it, look at the following illustration, which shows the candy "Watermelon". The cake looks very appetizing! Both children and adults will appreciate it.
Decorating will take you a few minutes. The main thing is to choose the right dragees in red, green, white and brown. In this way, you can decorate a round, and semicircular, and even a triangular cake.
natural fruits
And the next dessert cannot even be called a cake, because it was not baked in the oven. But in form it is simply indistinguishable from a cake.
Abroad, such delicacies are very popular, consisting of various fresh fruits. Watermelon with few pits is great for this bright and real summer dessert. Sweet varieties are especially good.
If you started cooking this spectacular delicacy, choose a larger watermelon. With a large knife, cut off the oval ends, leaving the middle in the shape of a cylinder. Put it on a wide dish or cutting board, carefully cut off the peel. Remove visible bones.
It remains only to decorate the watermelon cake with cream or cream, add some fruit and cool before serving. Multi-colored berries are very good for decoration: raspberries, blueberries, currants, strawberries. They look very impressive against the background of snow-white whipped cream. You can also use nut chips, for example, almonds.
Choose your favorite watermelon cake recipe and try to cook this treat. It will surprise your guests and they will definitely like it.
Which will surprise all your guests! It not only looks amazing, but also tastes - you will lick your fingers! A cake is prepared without chemical dyes, from natural ingredients. This detailed photo recipe sent by Anna Kempi:
The idea to make such a cake, like all ideas, came to me suddenly and made me very happy! After all, this is a real opportunity to surprise guests! Therefore, this cake is especially relevant in the WINTER, for example, on New Year, because it is in winter that none of the guests expects to see holiday table a familiar treat in summer and autumn!
But for the preparation of this cake, the saying is very relevant: “Prepare the sleigh in the summer, and the cart in the winter.” In our case, in the summer you need to prepare ... watermelon pits ... Rinse, dry and put in a jar. But if they are not, then we will also come up with something;).
So let's get started!
Cake “Watermelon”
Compound:
Biscuit:
- 300 ml low fat sour cream
- 0.5 cup vegetable oil (or melted butter)
- 1.5 cups flour
- 100 ml sugar
- 0.5 teaspoon of soda
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla sugar
- 2 tbsp. spoons of lemon juice
Interlayer:
- 200 ml whipping cream (at least 30%)
- 1 pack (200 g) fresh cheese Philadelphia (or Mascarpone)
- 100 g sugar
- a pinch of vanillin
- 3 jars baby mango puree
Jelly:
- 600 ml of water (some will go to the layer)
- 2 teaspoons of agar-agar (soluble)
- sugar to taste (I have about 5 tablespoons)
- a small amount of red berry juice, preferably natural concentrated (for color and taste)
Decoration:
- 1-2 kiwi
- 1/4 cup water
- watermelon bones (if there are no seeds now, but you really want to make a cake, I think you can try replacing them with frozen blueberries)
How to make a watermelon cake - recipe:
- Cooking biscuit.
Mix sour cream with soda, add oil and lemon juice. Pour sugar, vanilla, mix everything with a whisk.
Mixing ingredients for dough
- Add flour, mix well again until smooth.
We pour flour
- We spread the dough for ours in a round detachable form lined with a parchment sheet.
Ready dough in the form
- We put the form with the dough in the oven preheated to 200 degrees in the middle and bake for about 15-20 minutes. The biscuit should rise and brown.
We bake
- We transfer the finished biscuit to cool on the balcony. Then cut it with a long sharp knife into three parts. To do this, remove the sides of the mold, leave the biscuit on a round base, stick the knife parallel to the table, retreating 1 cm from the top, and, rotating the biscuit, cut off the first upper cake, gradually deepening the knife. Then carefully remove the top cake and cut off the bottom one using the same system.
Cutting the biscuit
- Now let's make the jelly.
Pour cold water into the ladle, dissolve agar-agar in it, and, stirring, bring to a boil. As soon as it boils, remove from heat. Pour off half a glass and set aside, add sugar to the rest (its amount depends on the sweetness of the juice, in my case the juice was sour). Let cool until warm.
Attention! Agar-agar freezes even when room temperature, so you need to be very careful and do everything on time.
Agar-agar solution
- Preparing the layer for the cake.
Whip the cream in a separate bowl.
Whip cream with mixer
- In another bowl, beat cheese with sugar and add mango puree.
Cooking curd cream
- Add whipped cream to the resulting mixture and stir quickly and thoroughly (but not for long so that the cream does not fall off).
- Then carefully, in a thin stream, pour in the remaining half a glass of cooled (but not thickened) syrup with agar-agar, mix everything quickly.
Add agar agar to the cream
- We form the cake "Watermelon".
While the agar-agar has not thickened, we proceed immediately to the collection of the cake. Everything is very simple: we put the first cake on the dish.
Advice: I will share a little trick: in order to fix a beautiful cake napkin on a dish, sprinkle the dish with water from a spray bottle.
Assembling the cake
- We spread the cakes with a thick layer of cream: first the bottom cake, then the middle one.
We layer cakes with cream
- Cover with the top cake (it is better to turn it over with the porous side up). We carefully put on the sides of the detachable form in which the biscuit was baked, fix them tightly on the cake.
We dress bumpers
- Then apply a thin layer of cream on the top cake.
Covering the cake with cream
- We decorate the cake in the form of a watermelon.
To the cooled, but not thickened (if thickened - warm up) syrup with agar-agar, add juice (I used homemade juice from berries, cooked by my mother-in-law, it is sugar-free and has a very rich color). In principle, it can be added immediately with sugar, but I did not want to heat it in order to preserve the vitamins. Mix until smooth.
cooking jelly
- Gently, evenly apply a thin layer of liquid jelly to the cream (preferably with a large spoon).
Making a red “watermelon” layer
- Place the cake in the fridge for a few minutes to set quickly.
- Then the most interesting. We carefully stick the prepared watermelon seeds into the frozen jelly, repeating their natural arrangement in the watermelon cut ...
Arrange the watermelon pits on the cake
- Pour half of the remaining part of the syrup with juice and agar-agar and remove the Watermelon cake in the cold.
- Now finishing touch!
You can leave the cake as it is, pouring all over the pink syrup, or you can add a green “rind” of watermelon. To do this, dissolve in 1/4 cup cold water 2 teaspoons of agar-agar and bring this mixture to a boil. Grind peeled kiwifruit in a blender and pour agar-agar into them, stirring quickly. Add sugar to taste.
I did not quite right: I dissolved agar-agar in boiling water and mixed with kiwi, but the mixture almost did not thicken, because I did not keep the proportions: I had too much water and not enough agar. Therefore, I had to bring the mixture with kiwi to a boil - this made the color dimmer. The photo shows that not boiled kiwi is much brighter
Cooking kiwi jelly
- With a thin knife, carefully cut off the edge of the frozen pink jelly in a circle, making room for the green one.
- Gently pour the mixture of kiwi with agar into the vacant place around the circumference with a tablespoon or from a container with a spout.
Making "watermelon crust"
- Then spread the remaining pink jelly with a spoon and put the cake in the cold for quick solidification.
Apply the remaining red jelly
